Garments

Sector In
Bangladesh
Submitted to
Dr. Sheikh Mominul Islam
Asst. Professor,
Southeast University.
Submitted By:
Aktaruzzaman Chowdhury ...2009000400001
Shamim mahmud Alam
...2009000400031
Mohaimenur Rahman.2009000400032
Sadayat Hossain..2009000400036
Rahul Das2009000400039
Shuvadeep Saha...2009000400043
Anup Kumar Biswas2009000400120
 Garments Sector In
Bangladesh
Garment sector is the largest employer in
Bangladesh.
The garment sector has provided
employment opportunities to employer from
the rural areas that previously did not have
any opportunity to be part of the formal
workforce.
This has given women the chance to be
financially independent and have a voice in
the family because now they contribute
financially.
 Inhuman life of Garments wo
rkers
Most of the workers came from the village,
could not income paper money in the village.
After arrived Dhaka/ cities they could get a
chance, at the same time bound to work as
without money city life impossible, can not
continue ever one hour.
The garments owners take this change as
there is huge number worker available with
competitive price. Although they know there are
doing more work compare to there salary, but
they can not say anything.
They work 12-14 hours daily, even for whole
night during shipment, despite this violate
 Factory Conditions AreUnsaf
e
Nari Uddog Kendra (Centre for Womens Initiatives), a
womens organization working with women employed in the
garment factories.
One quarter of those reporting respiratory problems had been
working in the factories for five years or more, and one fifth of
those reporting symptoms of repetitive strain injuries had been
working for six years or more. Long hours of work in one
particular position, lack of access to clean toilet facilities and
inadequate ventilation in factories were major factors.
 The economics of exploitation
The ruling class in Bangladesh should be worried by
this expression of workers' power - a major revolt
forcing major concessions in the only significant
export industry. Some Western analysts are already
classifying the country as 'a failing state' and it is
rated as the most corrupt in the world (in whatever
way the ruling class calculates such things). This is
causing international concern at the potential
destabilizing influence on the region. "The
geopolitical significance of the riots lies in the fact
that they reveal the weakness of the Bangladeshi
state. The failure of the government to contain the
violence quickly and opting instead for half measures
that satisfied neither side and did nothing to bring
them to an agreement points to an implosion of
governability and indicates that Bangladesh is drifting
toward the status of a failed state.
 Primary Problems

Problems high medium low total

3 2 0 5
01.Raw-materials
60% 40% - 100%

1 3 1 5
02. Marketing problems
20% 60% 20% 100%

5 0 0 5
03. Machinery problem
100% - - 100%

3 2 0 5
04. Inefficient workforce
60% 40% - 100%

1 1 3 5
05. Licensing problem
20% 20% 60% 100%

4 1 0 5
06. Quota problem
80% 20% - 100%

3 2 0 5
07. Poor government policy 60% 40% - 100%

5 0 0 5
08. Labor unrest/strike
100% - - 100%
 Problem during on
Garments sector

Primary Problems
120

100

80
Percentage (%)
60

40

20

0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Problems
High Medium Low
The garment owners indifference towa
rds itsworkers
:

The garments workers, who are mostly women, and

earn 76% of total foreign exchange, are ill paid and
lead substandard life.

Mentionable that export of Bangladesh garments products

remains still strong, while many countries have gone
down.
Long hours of
work in one
particular
position, lack of
access to clean
toilet facilities
and inadequate
ventilation in
factories were
major factors
 The absence of pr
oper facilities i
n garmentfactori
es

they have to carry their small new born child

to the factories.
 Living place of
garmentworker
s

treated as lower class by the so-called higher

class people of our society.
The economics of exploitation
The workers' revolt led to a sharp drop in share
prices as international investors panicked at reports
of a 'workers' insurrection' in the garment industry.

The ruling class in Bangladesh should be worried by

this expression of workers' power - a major revolt
forcing major concessions in the only significant
export industry.

Working conditions

In the garment industry in

Bangladesh, tasks are allocated
largely on the basis of gender.
This determines many of the
working conditions of the women
workers. All the workers in the
sewing section are women, while
almost all those in the cutting,
ironing, and finishing sections are
men.
Why women work

Competing views in the literature

suggest that women in the RMG
sector in Bangladesh work
because of economic hardship
and because of an economic
incentive for securing marriage
potential.
Control over income

Single women workers live with a

distant relative and hand over
their wages to the older guardian
for household expenses.
Wives do not question their
husbands spending. Working
wives tend not to question
because it only creates more
friction.
The working-class history in
general of Bangladesh

Five hundred garment workers in

Bangladesh have been sacked,
five women raped and three
women killed because of their
campaign for the right to one
day's holiday (Friday) each week.
Conclusion:

Currently, Bangladesh has 3,700

garment factories that employ 1.8 million
people. Of those workers, 85 to 90
percent are women. Trade unionists fear
that almost 1 million garment workers
would become unemployed after a quota
system that helped Bangladesh garment
industry to strength its position is indeed.
THE END